Question: Why does it most efficient for bacteria to keep the lac operon inactive in the presence of glucose?
Question: What is the function of CAP? How does it induce assembly of multimolecular gene regulatory complexes?
Question: Use specific information from Chapter 8 to describe what specific step of transcription is affected by the mutations shown at the bottom half of Figure 11-11.
Question: What procedure ensures that pre-mRNA processing is co-transcriptional? How are all three steps of processing (capping, splicing, and cleavage/polyadenylation) sequentially controlled?